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The decision by the Volta River Authority spill excess water flowing the Akosombo dam in 2023 was necessary but needed a more effective control spillage floodplain in order to minimise the impact at downstream, fresh report from the technical team has revealed.<\/p>\n
A designated floodplain should be delineated to accommodate spill discharges in the short term to medium term in response to climate change uncertainties and in the long term.<\/p>\n
Resilience improvement projects should consider critical public…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The decision by the Volta River Authority spill excess water flowing the Akosombo dam in 2023 was necessary but needed a more effective control spillage floodplain in order to minimise the impact at downstream, fresh report from the technical team has revealed. A designated floodplain should be delineated to accommodate spill discharges in the short […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,29006,6877,7146,19798,4508,4509,5064,24753,257,5144,254,22639],"class_list":["post-197755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-akosombo","tag-control","tag-dam","tag-effective","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-impact","tag-minimise","tag-news","tag-report","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spillage"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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